# GRIT Newspapers...... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 20, 2001, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grit-newspapers/77251 "2001-08-20T23:31:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grit-newspapers/77251/1 "2001-08-20T23:31:40Z")
Do kids still sell this paper? Another post (_Highlights_)made me think of it, so I thought I would ask. Man, I sold a _lot_ of those papers to my neighbors on my trusty _Schwinn_ Racer! Anyone else? Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grit-newspapers/77251/2 "2001-08-21T00:02:37Z")
…to be honest, I didn’t think it was a real paper…nobody I ever knew delivered it, nobody I ever knew bought it, nobody I ever knew had ever even seen a copy of it…as a matter of fact, most people I know have never even _heard_ of it. My brother and sister _did_ try to sell flower seeds though, as also advertised on the back covers of comic books… so **Quasi** …you sold it: just what the hell was Grit all about anyway and why would somebody want a subscription to it, rather than, say, their local newspaper? ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grit-newspapers/77251/3 "2001-08-21T00:27:54Z")
_GRIT_ was the forerunner of todays tabloids (you name them, I never read them), but in a much softer vein. They were a weekly _Reader’s Digest_ (of sorts) for rural folks. I gotta tell ya’, I still have such happy memories of delivering these papers to pretty housewives who were waiting just to have something to read while their husbands were working the cotton/yarn mills. I think it was worth the 10 cents a week to them (and to me!) to get away from the drudgery for a while. If I could hang some sentences together, I sure would like to bring those sweet memories to life: “Hello, Mrs. Johnson! Here’s your _GRIT_!” “Okay, Q! Pick up your payment in the mailbox this Sat’day!” And it was always there. Q ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grit-newspapers/77251/4 "2001-08-21T00:48:54Z")
I remember reading Grit at my grandfolk’s ranch in Montana when I was a kit. One of those artifacts of a bygone day like the Police Gazette in the barber shop ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grit-newspapers/77251/5 "2001-08-21T02:55:40Z")
What a fantastic question! Back when I was a mere slip of a lass, in the late 60s & early 70s, I pondered the mysteries of “Grit.” It certainly was never a staple of suburban Long Island readers! It’s good to know that my assumption that it was meant for farmer-types was not entirely without merit. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grit-newspapers/77251/6 "2001-08-21T04:52:53Z")
[It’s still around](http://www.grit.com/).